Elements (Brittainy C Cherry) Books in Order

The Elements series is a four-book set of interconnected standalones, The Air He Breathes, The Fire Between High & Lo, The Silent Waters, and The Gravity of Us. Each novel follows a different couple, but the books are tied together by mood, emotional intensity, and the idea that love can meet people at their lowest point without magically making life easy.

Cherry loosely builds the series around the classical elements, air, fire, water, and earth, but this is not fantasy or magical realism. The element idea works more like a frame for the feeling of each romance. These are contemporary stories about grief, trauma, addiction, shame, family damage, and the hard work of learning to trust again.

The Air He Breathes starts with two people wrecked by loss, including the feared recluse Tristan Cole, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. The Fire Between High & Lo turns to first love and the way tenderness can survive inside chaos. The Silent Waters follows Maggie and Brooks from childhood onward, using silence, memory, and deep-rooted pain to tell a love story that has been forming for years.

These books go straight for the bruise.

The Gravity of Us closes the quartet with Lucy and Graham, two opposites pulled together by family upheaval and feelings neither of them is good at managing. By that point, the series has made its pattern clear. Cherry likes pairing guarded, hurting people with someone who sees more than the mask. The chemistry matters, but the emotional repair matters just as much.

Even though the novels can be read on their own, reading in order lets you catch the quieter links between families and side characters. It also shows how broad Cherry's emotional range can be inside one series. Some books lean more into grief. Some lean more into first love or forbidden attraction. All of them stay grounded in people who want to be loved while still believing they might be too broken for it.

Expect intense contemporary romance with heavy themes, soft moments, and endings that feel earned rather than easy. If you like stories about wounded people learning how to breathe, burn, speak, and stay, Elements is probably the best place to begin.